Full Title:

Title page recto: [in decorative italic] The | Young | Magicians | Edited, | with an Introduction | and Notes | by | Lin Carter | BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright © 1969 by Lin Carter | [45-lines of copyright data for included works] | First Printing: October, 1969 | Printed in the United States of America | BALLANTINE BOOKS, INC. | 101 Fifth Avenue,, New York, New York, 10003 | Cover Painting: Sheryl Slavitt (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Ballantine Books, October, 1969

Collation:

Trade paperback [17.8 cm. (7 in.) x 10.8 cm. (4¼ in.)]. Pp viii + 280; (i) [blurb]; (ii) Other Lin Carter Titles; (iii) title page; (iv) publication data; (v) dedication (verso blank); (vii)-(viii) Contents; 1-7 introduction; 8-44 texts of other works; 45-85 text of The Way of Ecben; 86-275 texts of other works; 276-280 Appendix.

Wraps:

White paper, black lettering on spine and rear panel, front panel lettered in white over painting by Sheryl Slavitt (see image above).

Spine: [Ballantine logo] | [lettered down the spine in decorative italic] The Young Magicians ed. Lin Carter 3345-01730-095

Front panel: [upper left, lettered up] [in white] Ballantine Books 01730•095 [in black, Ballantine logo] - [upper right, black on white circle ground ] 95¢ ORIGINAL | [unicorn logo] | Adult | Fantasy | [centered on panel in white decorative italic] The | Young | Magicians | edited by Lin Carter

Rear panel: This is an original publication - not a reprint | [11-line blurb] | [in italic] Edited and with introduction and notes | by Lin Carter | [dragon decoration] | [flush right, lettered down] Cover printed in USA

Dedication:

THE YOUNG MAGICIANS | is dedicated to | the man who invented fantasy, | WILLIAM MORRIS | and to those living writers, | his spiritual descendents, who, | for one or another reason, are not | represented herein: | Lloyd Alexander | Poul Anderson | Jane Gaskell | John Jakes | Fritz Leiber | Michael Moorcock, | AND | Andre Norton

Notes:

While this is not a separate printing of The Way of Ecben, it was the first reprint of this title in forty years, and so we have followed James Hall's lead in including it.